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Dr. Torrey C. Brown, the former secretary of Maryland's Department of Natural Resources who banned fishing for rockfish for a time in the 1980s, died of heart disease Sunday at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Severna Park resident was 77. Born in Chicago, he was a graduate of the University of Chicago High School. He earned a degree at Wheaton College and then came to Baltimore, where he earned a degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Brown remained at Hopkins for further medical training and joined the faculty as an associate professor of medicine in 1974. He worked in kidney ailments and was chief of the Hopkins emergency room. In the late 1960s, he headed...

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Dr. Torrey C. Brown, the former secretary of Maryland's Department of Natural Resources who banned fishing for rockfish for a time in the 1980s, died of heart disease Sunday at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Severna Park resident was 77.Born in Chicago,...

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